Video Explanations for Ch. 16 Questions
What are the three most significant comparative points (can be similarities OR differences) between the maritime and land-based empires of the 16th-18th centuries?
What key pieces of evidence illustrate these essential contrasts?
Trace the trajectory of European countries and their relative dominance as maritime empires in Asia.
Represent this change over time graphically and in a way that notes the major factors and key historical milestones of these transitions.
Create a visual comparison of the major land-based empires of the 16th-18th centuries that both profiles and notes their four most important points of comparison (could be either similarities or differences).
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ID Terms, Critical Questions - organized by Unit/Chapter Introduction (pp. xlii-xlviii) Part One - Foragers and Farmers, to 5000 BCE (Chs. 1-2) Part Two - Farmers and Builders, 5000 to 500 BCE (Chs. 3-5) Part Three - The Axial Age, from 500 BCE to 100 CE (Chs. 6-7) Part Four - Fitful Transitions, from the Third Century to the Tenth Century (Chs. 8-10) Part Five - Contacts and Conflicts, 1000 CE to 1200 CE (Chs. 11-12) Part Six - The Crucible: The Eurasian Crises of the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries (Chs. 13-15) Part Seven - Convergence and Divergence to ca. 1700 (Chs. 16-19) Part Eight - Global Enlightenments, 1700-1800 (Chs. 20-22) Part Nine - The Frustrations of Progress to ca. 1900 (Chs. 23-26) Part Ten - Chaos and Complexity: The World in the Twentieth Century (Chs. 27-30)
Assignment Brainstorming Area
Podcasting Assignment - competing interpretations or panel of historical figures (relying on primary source material) POTB - Voicethread of Family History object POTB - PSE and timeline profile for each of the historical periods in the text Wikipedia Assignment - create an entry in Wikipedia from the stubs page and track its evolution and revisions.
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Outline Map of Africa (for quiz on 03-12)
Readings for 03/03 - Bacon and Descartes
Readings for 02/16 - Three Reviews of Alfred Crosby's Ecological Imperialism
Video Explanations for Ch. 16 Questions
What are the three most significant comparative points (can be similarities OR differences) between the maritime and land-based empires of the 16th-18th centuries?
What key pieces of evidence illustrate these essential contrasts?
Trace the trajectory of European countries and their relative dominance as maritime empires in Asia.
Represent this change over time graphically and in a way that notes the major factors and key historical milestones of these transitions.
Create a visual comparison of the major land-based empires of the 16th-18th centuries that both profiles and notes their four most important points of comparison (could be either similarities or differences).
Class Schedule and Calendar
Class webpage on Edmodo
Class webpage on FWCD Portal
Class calendar as powered by Edmodo
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ID Terms, Critical Questions - organized by Unit/Chapter
Introduction (pp. xlii-xlviii)
Part One - Foragers and Farmers, to 5000 BCE (Chs. 1-2)
Part Two - Farmers and Builders, 5000 to 500 BCE (Chs. 3-5)
Part Three - The Axial Age, from 500 BCE to 100 CE (Chs. 6-7)
Part Four - Fitful Transitions, from the Third Century to the Tenth Century (Chs. 8-10)
Part Five - Contacts and Conflicts, 1000 CE to 1200 CE (Chs. 11-12)
Part Six - The Crucible: The Eurasian Crises of the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries (Chs. 13-15)
Part Seven - Convergence and Divergence to ca. 1700 (Chs. 16-19)
Part Eight - Global Enlightenments, 1700-1800 (Chs. 20-22)
Part Nine - The Frustrations of Progress to ca. 1900 (Chs. 23-26)
Part Ten - Chaos and Complexity: The World in the Twentieth Century (Chs. 27-30)
Textbook Resources
Felipe Fernández-Armesto - The World: A History
Biographies of Felipe Fernández-Armesto at Wikipedia and Tufts University
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Assignment Brainstorming Area
Podcasting Assignment - competing interpretations or panel of historical figures (relying on primary source material)
POTB - Voicethread of Family History object
POTB - PSE and timeline profile for each of the historical periods in the text
Wikipedia Assignment - create an entry in Wikipedia from the stubs page and track its evolution and revisions.